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Slime moulds are called fungus animals. 

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Slime moulds possess the characters of both animals and fungi. Therefore they are commonly called fungus animals. Modern biologists called them protistan fungi. They are like protozoa in their amoeboid plasmodial stage and similar to true fungi in spore formation.
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